Harrington will be playing with Tiger Woods and Masters champ Angel Cabrera tomorrow and Friday in the first two rounds of the U.S. Open, tough company for someone who’s struggled of late.

“There’s been a lot of focus on the work I’ve done with my swing. The road to hell is paved with good intentions,” Harrington said. “I’m comfortable with it. I’m going to be patient. I know where I am.

“It’s not something that happened out of the blue. It’s reasonably predictable and it’s a question of managing it, being patient and waiting for it to turn around.”

Harrington said he usually takes steps backwards after major moves forward, and says this drought is another case.

“I’m a constant tinkerer since I was 15 years of age. I don’t think I’d be comfortable unless I was changing something. I need to be working on something,” Harrington said. “It’s a little bit of a crutch.

“I envision at some time I’m going to stop doing it, but it hasn’t happened yet.”

But he says he won’t revert to his older, more successful swing for tomorrow.